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ABRAHAM o. SOARR, on MARYBOROUGH TOWNSHIP, oNT Ino, CANADA.

SULKY-HARROW AND SEED-SOWER COMBINED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 252,806, dated January 24;, 1882.

Application filed September 30, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM O. SGARR, of Maryborough township, Ontario, Canada, have invented a new and Improved Bulky-Harrow and Seed-Sower Combined, of which the fol-' lowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a barrow having such action that its teeth will not have a tendency to follow the edges ofthe furrows nor leave narrow unbroken ridges in the soil, but will cut the soil in all directions, causing complete pulverization of the soil and perfect covering of the seed without the necessity of cross-harrowingthe field; and also to provide a barrow which cannot be easily clogged with sods or similar things, and in that manner prevented from free and perfect action and rendered hard of draft, as is the case with barrows of ordinary construction.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the parts, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a crosssection of the same, taken on the line w w of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is the same section as that of Fig. 2, but looking in the opposite direction; and Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The frame of my improved machine is composed of the side bars, A A, and the crossbars B B, which latter are forward of the axle (J of the sulky, and the crossbars B B, which are in rear of the axle. The frame is secured upon the axle O by the bearings c c, bolted upon the side bars, A A. a

In front of the axle and between the crossbars B B is secured upon the side bars, A A, the seed-boxD, which is provided with the perforated false bottom d, which is moved over the perforated main bottom (I of the box, preferably by means of the cam'E, secured upon the shaft, which cam operates-the connecting-bar e, pivoted npon the cross-bar B, and connected at its forward end to the false bottom, as shown.

To the under side of the cross bars B B are connected by means of the chains ffand ff' the drags or barrows F and F, which harrows of the harrow are secured the semicircular bows it and a" i, to which are connected the ends of the yokes I I, which yokes are attached at their centers to the oscillating bar J, which is pivoted on the vertical rod J, which takes its hearings in the cross-bar B and in the loop K, bolted to the under side of the bar B, as shown clearly in Figs. 2 and 4. The rod J extends some distance above the cross-bar B, as clearly shown in Fig. 2, and serves also to guide the vertical movement of the loop or yoke K, which is placed upon it, as shown. Thisloop K, when in place, straddles the crossbar B, and its lower ends are riveted or otherwise secured to the oscillating bar J, and the hand-lever L is swiveled in any suitable manner to this loop. This hand-lever is pivoted in the bracket 1, secured upon the cross-bar B in convenientreach of the driver, and by means of it the harrows may be raised out of contact with the ground for passing over obstacles or for moving the harrow to or from the field or from one field to another.

To the rear end ot'the oscillating barJ is attached one end of the pitman-rod. H, the other end of which is connected to the crank-wheel G, secured upon the rear end of the shaft N, which is journaled in bearings upon the crossbars B B. The inner endof this shaft is'provided with the beveled-gear wheel H, which meshes with the beveled pinion G, placed loosely upon the axle G. This pinion G is formed with the notched extensionj, with which the projections of the sliding clutch-collar P are adapted to engage. The clutch-collar P is placed upon suitable feathers formed upon the shaft, and is adapted to be moved to engage and disengage the pition H, for putting the machine in and out of gear by the foot-lever P, pivoted upon the cross-bar B, near the seat M, in convenient position for the driver.

In orderthat the harrow may be easily turned in either direction without cramping the axle, I provide the axle, near the bearings of the drive-wheels Q Q, with the fixed notches q q, and provide the hubs of thedrive-wheels with the spring-actuated pawls s s, which engage with the notches and make the wheels fast upon the axle while going in a forward direction, but permit the wheels to turn backward upon the axle. The cam E is also loose upon the axle, and is adapted to be thrown in and out of action by means (which have been omitted from the drawings to avoid confusion) substantially the same as that just described for throwing in and outof action theoscillatingmechanism.

Vhen all parts of the machine are in operation the seed will be scattered evenly over the ground in front of the harrows, and the harrows will be given an alternate rapid and positive oscillating movement, which will cause the soil to be cut in all directions and thoroughly pulverized and the seed to be perfectly and sufiicientl y covered.

It will be observed that the harrow mechanism is entirely independent in its action of the seeding mechanism, and that the seeding mechanism might therefore be omitted, if desired; but I prefer in all instances to attach it, as it may be kept entirely out of action when desired.

I am aware that itis notbroadly new to give barrows an oscillating movement, and I therefore do not claim such; but

\Vhat I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

]. The combination, with the frame and the 0 'lllIIOWS F F, formed of the sections g g g g,

and provided with the bows i i, of the yokes I I, the pivoted bar J, the connecting-rod H, crank-wheel G, shaft N, and the pinions H G, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. The combination, with the frame, the barrows F F, and the yokes I I, of the pivoted bar J, the vertical rod J, the loop or yoke K,

and the lever L, substantially as and for the 5 purpose set forth.

ABRAHAM o. soARR.

Witnesses:

J. FRANCIS (J. HALDAN, H. J. POWLEY.

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